Usually means: Point or period in time.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word when:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. when: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. when: Merriam-Webster
  3. when: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. when: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. when: Collins English Dictionary
  6. when: Vocabulary.com
  7. WHen, When, When, when, when, when, when, when, when: Wordnik
  8. when: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. when: Wiktionary
  10. when: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. when: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. when: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. when: Dictionary.com
  14. when: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. when: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. WHEN (AM), When (Red Vincent Hurley song), When (Shania Twain song), When (The Kalin Twins song), When (album), When (band), When: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. When: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. when: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. when: Rhymezone
  20. when: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. when: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. when: FreeDictionary.org
  23. when: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. when: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. When (disambiguation), when: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WHEN: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. when: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See whens as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
adverb:  (interrogative, Internet slang, often humorous) Used after a noun or noun phrase in isolation to express impatience with an anticipated future event.
adverb:  At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.
adverb:  (relative) At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
adverb:  (fused relative) The time at, on or during which.
adverb:  (informal, in definitions or explanations) A circumstance or situation in which.
noun:  The time at which something happens.

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